Venerability: alternatives and connections

Dignified, like an aged man; magisterial; venerable.

To render venerable or revered; to hallow; to dignify; as, rules or principles consecrated by time.

Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man…

Inspiring with reverential fear; awful' venerable; as, dread sovereign; dread majesty; dread tribunal.

A venerable old man; an elder. Also used figuratively.

Characteristic of a patriarch; venerable.

A sacred tree (Ficus religiosa) of the Buddhists, a kind of fig tree which attains great size and venerable age. See Bo tree.

Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.

Designated or exalted by a divine sanction; possessing the highest title to obedience, honor, reverence, or veneration; entitled to ex…

A wise man; a man of gravity and wisdom; especially, a man venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave philosophe…

To impart or impute sacredness, venerableness, inviolability, title to reverence and respect, or the like, to; to secure from violatio…

Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past.

Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.

Venerable from antiquity; ancient; old.